Mentor Sentences Middle School Grammar Lessons Activities | Two Volume Bundle

Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete two-volume print and digital bundle of middle school mentor sentences. This volume two bundle includes 72 weeks of done-for-you digital and print mentor sentences for each week, examples and possible answers for each day of the week, teacher lessons and interactive notebooks lessons with all examples and answer keys, self-grading weekly assessments, projection slides, worksheets, or interactive notebook option for each week's sentence.

This grammar bundle has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences in your middle School ELA classroom, by using sentences from popular middle-grade and young-adult novels. These mentor sentences used to teach grammar will make grammar everyone's favorite subject because you will be using sentences from popular middle-grade and young-adult novels.

Here's what you'll get:

• Printable mentor sentence activities for each week in three different teaching formats, plus all examples and answer keys.
• Google Slides Interactive Mentor Sentences for students to type into and answer keys for teachers
• Printable Tuesday Grammar Interactive Notebook Activity and Teacher Examples
• Google Slides Interactive Tuesday Grammar Lesson note pages for students to type right into and Examples and Answers for Teachers.
• Printable weekly assessments with all answer keys.
• Google Forms SELF-GRADING weekly Friday assessments
• Printable PDF Mentor Sentences to Display
• Google Slides Mentor Sentences to Display
• Student grammar reference sheets for parts of speech, punctuation, etc. (8 reference pages in all). Color and black and white options. (PDF)

You will love watching your students actually learn grammar in a way that is authentic because they will apply it to their writing. Students will love that they are learning grammar by using sentences from novels and books they love. Even more so, you'll find that students will be introduced to new books that they'll BEG you to read.

Each interactive lesson has examples for teachers to use to teach each grammar concept, while each mentor sentence has answer keys and suggested grammar concepts and examples for every activity. The assessments are SELF-GRADING.

Prep is quick and easy... Decide if you're going to use the digital version or the print version.

Printable version? Make copies of the mentor sentence activity, the interactive notebook lessons, and the assessment each week. Spend 5-15 minutes each day of the week doing the grammar activities, interactive notebook lessons, and assessments, and watch your students' grammar knowledge and writing abilities go through the roof.

Digital? Just make a copy of the files and then make a copy for each student in Google Classroom and spend 5-15 minutes each day of the week doing the grammar activities, interactive lessons, and assessments. Even better? The digital assessments are self-grading Google forms.

VOLUME ONE:

The first 9 weeks' mentor texts:

1. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
2. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
3. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
4. Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
5. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
6. The Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
7. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
9. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The second nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. Noggin by John Corey Whaley
2. Matched by Ally Condie
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry 
4. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
5. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
6. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
7. White Fang by Jack London
8. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
9. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 

The third nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. Schooled by Gordan Korman
3. Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
4. Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
5. Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
6. Thirteen Reason Why by Jay Asher
7. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
8. Divergent by Veronica Roth
9. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

The fourth nine weeks' mentor texts:

1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
3. Simon and the Homo Sapien's Agenda by Becky Albertalli
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
6. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
7. Booked by Kwame Alexander
8. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
9. The Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The first nine weeks' grammar concepts

• Pre-Lessons: Parts of Speech, The Four Sentence Structures (Simple Sentences, Complex, Compound, and Compound-Complex), Figurative Language, and Types of Phrases (Absolute, Appositive, Gerund, Infinite, Noun, Participle, and Prepositional)
• Week 1: The other four types of sentences (interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory).
• Week 2: Independent and Dependent Clauses
• Week 3: Subjects and predicates
• Week 4: Action, helping, and linking verbs
• Week 5: Verb tenses
• Week 6: Verb moods
• Week 7: Common and proper nouns
• Week 8: Active and passive verbs
• Week 9: Verbals (gerunds, infinitives, and past and present participles)

The second nine weeks' grammar concepts

• Week 10: Plural Noun Rules 
• Week 11: Abstract and Concrete Nouns 
• Week 12: Intensive and Vague Pronouns 
• Week 13: Types of Pronouns 
• Week 14: Proper Pronoun Cause
• Week 15: Types of Adjectives 
• Week 16: Dangling Modifier Rules 
• Week 17: Expressing Ideas Precisely 
• Week 18: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 

The third nine weeks' grammar concepts

• Week 19: Subordinating and Coordinating Conjunctions
• Week 20: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• Week 21: Direct and Indirect Objects + Object of the Preposition
• Week 22: Capitalizing and Punctuating the Titles of Works
• Week 23: Using Numbers in English
• Week 24: Apostrophes
• Week 25: Commas
• Week 26: Punctuating Nonrestrictive Elements
• Week 27: Common Prefixes

The fourth nine weeks' grammar concepts

• Week 28: Determining Unknown Word Meanings + Connotation and Denotation
• Week 29: Homophones
• Week 30: Commonly Confused Words
• Week 31: Synonyms and Antonyms
• Week 32: Who and Whom
• Week 33: The Three Types of Irony
• Week 34: Idioms
• Week 35: Personification
• Week 36: The Benefits of the Different Sentence Types

VOLUME TWO:

The first 9 weeks' mentor texts:

1. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
3. HP Book Three by J.K. Rowling
4. Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
5. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
6. The Selection by Kiera Cass
7. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
8. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
9. Ungifted by Gordon Korman

The second 9 weeks' mentor texts:

1. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
2. Refugee by Alan Gratz
3. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
4. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
5. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
6. Unwind by Neal Shusterman
7. Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
8. Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
9. Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

The third 9 weeks' mentor texts:

1. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
2. Restart by Gordan Korman
3. The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry
4. Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
5. An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
6. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
7. The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
8. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
9. House Arrest by K.A. Holt

The fourth 9 weeks' mentor texts:

1. Swing by Kwame Alexander
2. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
3. Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli
4. Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal… by Steve Sheinkin
5. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
6. Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
7. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
8. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

The first 9 weeks' concepts

• Parts of Speech
• Sentences: Simple, Complex, Compound, and Compound-Complex
• Sentences: Imperative, Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory
• Independent and Dependent Clauses
• Simple and Complete Subjects and Simple and Complete Predicates
• Phrases: Appositive, Gerund, Infinitive, Noun, Participle, Prepositional, and Absolute
• Verbs: Action, Helping, Linking
• Verbs Tenses: Present Tense, Past Tense, Future Tense
• Verb Moods: Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative, Conditional, and Subjunctive
• Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns
• Figurative Language: Similes and Personification

The second 9 weeks' concepts:

• Concrete and Abstract Nouns
• Vague Pronouns
• Proper Nouns
• The Different Types of Pronouns
• Figurative Language: Hyperboles, Metaphors, and Allusions
• Active and Passive Verbs
• The Different Types of Adjectives: Descriptive, Quantitative, Possessive, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Distributive, Predicate, Noun Modifier (Determiner), Comparative, and Superlative
• Dangling Modifiers
• Expressing Ideas Precisely and Without Redundancy
• Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions

The third 9 weeks' concepts

• Prepositions
• Prepositional Phrases
• Object of the Preposition
• Indirect and Direct Objects
• Quotation Mark Rules
• Determining the Meanings of Unknown Words
• Using Dashes
• Using Commas
• Capitalization Rules
• Colons
• Semi-Colons
• Punctuating Non-Restrictive Elements
• Figurative Language: Idioms and Alliteration

The fourth 9 weeks' concepts

• Verbals
• Using apostrophes
• Using numbers In English
• Using words and context clues to determine their meanings.
• Homophones
• Using commas
• Connotation and denotation
• The Three Types of Irony
• Who vs. whom

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angelique C. says, "AMAZING! One word is really all this review needs, but I wanted to let prospective purchasers know that they won't be disappointed with this resource. It is so detailed, with plenty of examples, and the students thoroughly enjoyed the interactive notebook work that was associated with it. I love how we were able to refer back to those notebooks throughout the summer even when we weren't working on our mentor sentences. Thank you for an AMAZING resource!!!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Annie S. says, "I loved using Mentor sentences when I taught elementary ELA, so I was really excited to find a similar resource for the secondary classroom. The mentor text choices are excellent, and the layout of the digital versions works perfect with google classroom. It's exactly what I was looking for. I'm already talking to my team about purchasing more units. Thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Claire C. says, "Hand down the best resource I have ever bought! Mentor sentences have become a staple in my literacy block and the language development of the students has improved out of sight. It is so comprehensive. Thank you so much!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Christine V. says, "So as I sit here in my classroom trying to manage this plan of hybrid teaching...I have to say: During the last three zoom meetings with my team, I was able to participate in the meeting while still setting up the resource in my 6th-grade google class. For the first time in YEARS of teaching, I have the first six weeks of lessons already posted! I cannot believe how easy it was. I'm looking forward to using this with my middles this year. As much as I hoped we would be done with this pandemic, I, like others educators need all the help we can to make things work. We have been digital since late March 2020. These resources will be worth the cost (hella low) and make my life easier. Auto-graded?? #signmeup."

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You may also like…

• Digital Only Volume One Middle School Mentor Sentences
• Digital Only Volume Two Middle School Mentor Sentences
• Volume One Digital and Print Middle School Mentor Sentences
• Volume Two Digital and Print Middle School Mentor Sentences

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Other helpful links…

• Middle School Mentor Sentences Blog Post
• Middle School Mentor Sentences Volume 1: Two Free Weeks
• Middle School Mentor Sentences Volume 2: Two Free Weeks

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